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"On this island!"

"Here?" says she, starting to her feet again, "Here, Martin?"

"Aye, 'twas this I was despatched to secure, after I had been rapped over the head with a pistol-butt!"

"And how must you find it?"

"I never shall, the secret of it was in the packet I tossed overboard Adam may find it himself an he will"

"And you have no desire for this treasure?"

"None in the world" And now (at her earnest solicitation) I told her all hts aboard ship andof Adam's avowed intent to steal the "Faithful Friend" to his own purposes

"O wonderful!" says she, when I had done, and then again, "O wonderful! So this e were cut adrift Truly Master Penfeather hath quick and subtle wits"

"A guileful rogue--and very wily!" says I, clenching ue, Martin?"

"How!" quoth I, "was it not a wicked, vile and uish act to set you adrift thus, to run the peril of sea and a desolate island--"

"What other could he do, Martin, and the ship good as taken by the --for me!" and here she shivered "True, we have faced perils, have lost all our stores, but at least here a which she rose and presently su supped, I took beneath my arm my rusty sword (the which I had sharpened and burnished as well as I oat: but now she coh, we set out together forthwith